GAEC-MSI | CAU Lead: Dr. Olu Olatidoye

 

Dr. Olugbemiga Olatidoye is a Professor of Engineering and the Founder and Director of the Visualization, Simulation and Design Laboratory (ViSiDeL) - A Virtual Reality Lab at Clark Atlanta University (CAU). Other centers that he directs at CAU are Center for Alternative, Renewable Energy, Technology and Training (CARET2), Atlanta University (AUC) Sustainable Campus Community Initiatives (ASCCI), IBM-CAU Cyber Security Leadership Center (CSLC), IBM-CAU Artificial Intelligence Center (AIC), IBM-CAU Quantum Computing Center (QCC), Sustainable AI enabled Climate Innovation Center Hub (AICIC), Center for Additive Manufacturing (CAM), Atlanta Electronic Commerce Resource Center (AECRC), Army High Performance Computing Research Center (AHPCRC) and DoD Major Shared Resource Center (Army Research Laboratory (ARL), Army Corp of Engineer Waterways Experiment Station (CEWES), Aeronautic System Center (ASC) Wright Patterson Air Force Base) and Georgia Industrial Assessment Center (GIAC). All centers are Department of Defense (DoD) and Department of Energy (DOE) funded projects.

He served as the Coordinator of the Dual Degree Engineering Program at CAU, which lead to the creation of the Engineering Department at CAU in 1994. Dr. Olatidoye received his Bachelors degree in Architectural Engineering in the area of Structures from North Carolina A&T State University in 1982. He completed his Masters degree in Architecture at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, a Masters degree in Civil Engineering in Engineering Computer Graphics at Georgia Tech, Atlanta. Other degrees from Georgia Tech are Knowledge Engineering and Doctorate degree with emphasis on Intelligent Graphics. He was a member of the Board of Directors at Georgia Tech.

He was a member of the Army Science Board. He is a structural engineer by practice. His research areas include Alternative, Renewable Energy (Solar Energy, Bio-Fuel, Hydrogen Fuel cells, etc.), Intelligent Graphics, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality, Artificial Intelligence, Alternative, Renewable Energy, Cyber Security, Internet of Things, Blockchain, Quantum Computing, Design Thinking, Cloud Computing, Fluid-Structure Interaction Problems, Electronic Commerce/Electronic Data Interchange, Architecture, Structural Dynamics and Visualization, Simulation and Design.

He has chaired and presented at several notable conferences such as the World Automation Congress Conference. In recent past, he was selected to serve on the proposal review panels for National Science Foundation (NSF) Interactive Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) program as a Lead reviewer, Writer, Reader and Scriber. He helped co-found a start-up company and a non-profit organization. Dr. O. is also an active member of the Men of Valor at the East West Church in Marietta, Georgia